Combined brush and comb.



A. J. GRABER. COMBINED BRUSH AND COMB.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22.1914.

1,122,108. Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

, ,lllll ANTHONY'J. GRABER, 0F HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

COMBINED BRUSH AND COMB.

Specification of Letters ZPatent.

Patented ea. 22, 1am.

Application filed May 22, 1914. Serial No. 840,310.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY J. GRABER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington, in the county of Cabell and State of Nest Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Brushes and Combs, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to brushes and more particularly to combined brushes and combs.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a brush so constructed as to contain combs which may be projected into operative position at the will of the operator or thrown to concealed position when desired, and a further object of the invention is in the provision of means for locking the combs in either position.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the combs extended. Fig. 2 is a top plan view with parts of the back cover broken away. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a transverse sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2 and on an enlarged scale.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents the back of the brush which has secured thereto in any suitable or preferred manner the bristles 2. The back also has a handle secured thereto and covering the back and the handle and slightly separated therefrom is the back cover 3 which extends over the handle as shown at 4 and is provided with a pair of spaced channels 5 and 6 for a purpose to be hereinafter described. Pivoted to the back and between the same and the cover 3 are the separate pairs of hell crank levers 7 and 8 each pair being connected together by bars 9, as shown in Fig. 2. The opposite end of each bell crank lever is provided with a pin 10 arranged to engage in a slot 11 formed in the back of the comb 12. The slots 11 are arranged adjacent the opposite ends of the comb and are engaged by the pins of each pair and each pair of bell crank levers is operated by a link 13 connected at one end to an car 14: onits respective bar 9 and at the opposite end to a screw 15 which projects through a corresponding channel 5 or 6 and has threaded thereon a clamping nut 16. The screw, as shown in Fig. 4, is provided with a shoulder 17 to engage the under side of the cover 4; and the nut is considerably wider than the slot and has a depression in its upper end so as to receive the thumb or finger for operating the screw in the slot to either project or retract the combs.

What is claimed is In combination, a channeled back having a slotted handle, a comb slidably mounted in the channel, bell crank levers pivoted to the back and operatively connected to each end of the comb,-means joining the bell crank levers for causing simultaneous operation, a rod slidably mounted in the handle and connected at one end to the joining means, and an operating member passing through the slot in the handle and connected to the other end of said rod.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANTHONY J. GRABER.

WVitnesses:

G. H. SPENCER, F. A. CARNOHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

